Shipping jacket for ice-cream containers



June 8 1926. 1,587,655

G." c KIDWELL SHIPPING JACKET FOR ICE CREAM CONTAINERS Filed August 15, 1925 till cru se GROVEB C. KIEDWELL, 03E MADISGN, INDIANA.

SEPING' JACKET FOR ICE-CREAM CONTAINERS.

Application filed August 15, 1925. Serial lilo. AM?- This invention relates to shipping jackets for ice cream containers and the like and has for an important provision of a jacket, 1 sity of employing ice in such containers.

object thereof the eliminating the necesthe shipping of An important object of the invention is 'to produce a device of this character which will be light in weight and provide a thorough insulation for the can.

A still further object of the invention is the whic may be very cheaply constructed.

These and other objects l attain by construction shown drawing, wherein for rovision of a device of this character readily produced and the in the accompanying the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of Figure 1 1s a invention and wherein perspective view of an ice cream can container constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional vteWl therethrough Figure 3 is view showing ets.

Referring drawings,

a partial transverse sectional the construction of the pocknow more particularly to the the numeral 10 generally designates a base for the container which con sists of two wooden disks 11 and 12 having arranged therebetween a layer of sheet cork 13. lhe side walls of the container comprise inner and outer canvas tubes 14, 15,

the space between which is divided into a plurality of pockets 16 for the reception of a ground cork filling 17 At its upper end,

the wall decreases in thickness a flaring mouth 18.

At their lower ends,

providing the inner and outer walls are firmly secured to the base 10. A

strap 19 surrounding the lower end of the outer wall is extended down about the sides of the base and this strap being secured to the base through the outer wall.

to the strap 19, at

handle straps leather or the like.

Secured their lower ends, are

20 consisting of a length of bent intermediate its ends and secured from a point adjacent the bend throughout its covering, as

indicated at 21.

length to the canvas The unattached portions 22 form handles for shifting the jacket.

to a further strap in spaced relation to Adjacent their upper ends, these straps are preferably 23 encircling the jacket likewise secured the upper end thereof,

this strap having projecting upwardly therefrom at spaced intervals buckle straps 24, the purpose of which will presently appear.

A cover isprovided comprising a canvas section forming a top 25 having depending from its edges a flap 26 forming a flange to receive the upper end of the jacket. lhis cover, upon its under surface, is lined with cork 2"! and canvas 28 after the manner of constructing the side walls and its under surface is shaped to contorm to the flaring of the upper end walls of the jacket and to the shaping of the cap of an ice cream can, as shown. The lower end of the flange is encircled by a strap 29, all of which, except the end portions, is secured to the flange at 30. The end portions have a buckle engagement with one another, as at 31, so that the flange may be drawn tightly against the sides of the jacket. Depending from this strap 29 are short straps 32 for coaction with the short straps carried by the jacket encircling strap 23 to draw the cap or cover firmly into position upon the jacket.

The pockets 16 are preferably formed by securing to the inner wall 14 vertically extending strips of fabric, indicated at 33. The outer ends of these strips are in turn secured to a layer of fabric lying within the outer wall 15 and in the form of a tube. By this construction, each of the pockets is provided with radially extending walls and each pocket is entirely separate and distinct from the remaining pocket so that rupture of one of the pockets will not affect any of the other pockets.

It will be obvious that the particular structure hereinbefore set forth is obviously capable of a certain range of change and modification and l accordingly do not limit myself to such specific structure except as hereinafter claimed I claim 1. In a heat insulating shipping jacket, a container wall including spaced continuous" inner and outer walls of flaccid material, strips of flaccid material connecting the inner and outer walls of the container producing between said walls a plurality of vertically extending ockets, aheat insulatin material tight y filling said pockets, and renderin the container wall selfsustaining and sustantially rigid, a bottom for the receptacle and a cover therefor.

2. In a heat insulating shipping jacket,

cid material secured at their lower ends to memes continuous annular concentric Wells of flacof said strips being secured to said walls, at

cork filling for each of said pockets tightly W filling the pockets and rendering said side walls rigid, and a cover for the container.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

a rigid heat insulating bottom, vertically extending strips of flaccid material extending between said walls from top to bottom thereof at circumferentially spaced intervals and dividing the space between said Walls into a plurality of pockets, the side edges GROVER C. KIDWELL. 

